Victoria's Novel Study Blog

The book I have chosen to review is The Secret Tree by Natalie Standiford. The genre is mystery and realistic fiction. I would give this book a 4/5 stars because it is very intriguing and leaves you wanting to read more. This book is about two best friends Minty and Paz, and all the adventures they go on during their summer vacation. The main character is Minty she is an adventurous, outgoing and spontaneous. Minty stumbles across a secret tree with notes that have peoples secrets written on them in a forest near her house one day. She them meets Raymond and the two of them set out to discover which secret belongs to who. "Did everyone around me have secrets?"pg 77. She is determined to find out which secret belongs to who and during the process she finds out a lot about her neighbours. The major conflict throughout the book is minty and Raymond trying to not get caught sneaking around their neighbourhood. "Thea looked up-- and saw me."pg 105. It is hard for Mi...

pg.95-135 The main theme in the book is mystery. We get to read about Paz as she is trying to figure out who's secrets belong to who. It's very interesting and a lot happens along the way that makes not want to stop reading. "Let's spy on the Murphys tonight". They spy on people quite a bit throughout the novel and sometimes it does not end well.  Which makes a quote like this quite important because then we know who they will be spying on that night.  If I had to choose one of the characters to be my friend I would choose, Paz, because she is very adventurous, out going and spontaneous. I like to hang out with people like that because i like to go out and do new things and i don't like to sit around and do nothing all day so i think her and i would get along quite well.  " We glided like ghosts through yards, past houses sleeping and wakeful." This quote is what she is doing when she is out spying and it shows the use of creative words the ...